Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-03

desire? Ifso, come to the public school
building in Ironton on the second Sat
urday In November and let us assist
each another as parents and teachers
in reforming our methods of teaching
and managing the boys and girls. We
want parents to be present as well az
tes chers. This educational association
ia In the interest Of the children OF Iron
county. You. friends and parents, are
interested, but your interest will not
benefit this ASSOCIATION II you do not
attend. 1t is necessary to the success
of our association. Teachers, come out,
one and all! Do not wait for the Mis-
souri, Legislature to make q law forcing
you to do your duty by attending
teachers institute.
One of the principal things to be done
in recitation is to teach. We want
more teaching and less hearing recita-
tions. The recitation is the main piece
to create an interest among your pupils
In the subject presented. This can
never be done by hearing recitations.
Every child has special needs. Study
these profoundly If you would succeed.
Help The. weak members OF Jour glasses.
You have such in all your classes. The
bright. industrious pupil will get along
all right with little directing. Give
tn. dull ones more time till they catch
up with their classes. In my present
work / found pupils who would soon
have been far behind had I not occa-
sionally dismissed the other members
of the GLASS, after few minutes drill,
and given these pupils the benefit OF
the remaining part of the recitation
hour.
We should spend much more time
than we do teaching our pupils how to
study. We can not get pupil to un-
derstand how to study by telling him,
any more than blacksmith could
teach an apprentice how to make .
plow by telling him. The teacher
must go through the work In detail
and then have the pupil do likewise.
ESSENTIALS OF GEOGRAPHY.
Much time In wasted i'm the study Of
geography, or rather, I should say, In
the study of non-essentials. Mouths
and sometimes years are spent in tax
ing the memory with the description
of insignificant rivers, lakes. islands,
&c., which in after years be.rays that
faculty which 10 80 greatly taxed. The
main thing in all branches 10 to teach
principles. These will grow blossom
and bring forth fruit. Some Of the
essentials of geography are the size and
form Of the earth; ito diurnal and an
nual revolutions; divisions into land
and water. aones; latitude, longitude,
surface, climate, soil, productions. peo-
pie; the great cities and the cause Of
their greatness; the occupations Of the
people; the great lines of commerce and
travel. Educate the child in teaching
him geography, don't cram him.
repeat, let US teach principles. The
one who teachas for siow or for pres.
ent results acts as foolishly 40 would
the farmer were he to plant bis pota.
toes and dig them q week afterward.
Plant and wait for the harvest, a. does
the farmer.
Programme of Iron county Teachers
Association for Saturday, November
IL, 1887, at the Ironton public school
building:
]. Methods In Arithmetic.....A. p. Vance.
Discussion led by Miss DeLong.
2. Methods In Language. s.. E. DeHaven,
Discussion led by J. 7. Patterson.
3. A paper by Mann Ringo.
Discussion led by Harry Padfeid.
4. Query box.
5. Recitation by Ed. Taylor.
Teachers and friends o: education we
expect your presence on this occasion.
MEMORY AND HOW TO TRAIN IT.
Memory is classed as one of the sep
crate faculties of the mind. It has been
defined as "our natural power of re-
tanning what we learn and recalling it
on every OCCASION" The value Of this
faculty is inestimable. 1t has been
well said that "all other abilities Of the
mind borrow from the memory their
beauty and perfection" Where would
be our knowledge, arts and sciences.
In fact, all the past. without memory?
Who has failed to some extent to ap-
preciate this when he has seen IL YIELD
Ing readily its rich treasures to one
orator, while to another its poverty
was seen when he read from book or
manuscript what the former easily and
with rapiiity called from the deposi-
tory of the minds wealth?
While memory and Judgment are
different faculties, the one existing al
most independent Of the other, the
former may be made the basis Of the
latter.
ITO be conttaued.)
The cheapest place TO buy STOVES Il att.
Aibert's.